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Downloading pirated content such as copyrighted movies or music is now illegal in the Netherlands, the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice announced on Thursday. reports. Until now, downloading copyrighted material in the Netherlands was permitted...

The question of how to deal with the piracy of music, movies and other forms of online content isn’t likely to be solved soon. But a chapter in a soon-to-be-published book on the digital economy by the National Bureau of Economic Research makes a com...

Copyright holders have been keeping Google busy this year, demanding the search giant remove four times as many links to allegedly pirated content in 2013 as last year. The search giant has removed more than 200 million such links since January, as r...

Americans are by far the biggest users of online piracy destination The Pirate Bay, accounting for more than one-third (35%) of traffic to the site. The Pirate Bay turns 10 on Saturday. Statista's chart below breaks down traffic to the piracy site by...

The thought that motion picture studios, including members of the Motion Picture Association of America, or MPAA, have been pirating content through the use of BitTorrent is one of those things that's long been suspected, and TorrentFreak reports tha...

American prosecutors have shut down 16 websites they accuse of illegally broadcasting live sports games and pay-per-view events over the Internet. The busts come three days before Super Bowl XLVI. The government accuses the sites of enabling viewers ...

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